A Polypeptide EXP and its Drug Delivery System as well as Extracellular Vesicle Extraction

ABSTRACT

The present invention “A polypeptide EXP and its drug delivery system as well as extracellular vesicle extraction kit thereof” belongs to the field of biomedical engineering and diagnostics. The amino acid sequence of the polypeptide EXP is set forth in SEQ ID NO. 1. Based on the polypeptide EXP, the present invention also provides a drug delivery system, targeted drug delivery system, enhanced drug delivery vehicle, a drug with enhanced delivery, targeted drug, extracellular vesicle extraction kit, disease diagnostic kit, a method for purifying extracellular vesicles, and use of the polypeptide EXP in pharmacy and diagnostic reagent manufacture.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application is a National Phase in the United States ofPCT/CN2019/126161, filed Dec. 18, 2019, which claims priority to ChineseApplication No. 201911084784.X, filed Nov. 8, 2019, the contents ofwhich are incorporated herein by reference.

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TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to the field of biomedical engineering, inparticular to a polypeptide EXP and its drug delivery system as well asextracellular vesicle extraction kit thereof.

BACKGROUND ART

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are vesicles with lipid bilayer structure,which are secreted by various cells and released into the extracellularspace. The EVs can be classified as two types: exosome and Microvesicles(MV). Extracellular vesicles play an important role in biologicalprocesses such as information transmission and material exchange amongcells.

Exosomes are a kind of biological vesicles with a diameter of 30-150 nm,which are widely distributed in cell supernatant, blood, urine and othersources, etc. Exosome can carry endogenous protein, mRNA, miRNA, andnoncoding RNA, which mediate the material exchange, signal transmissionand antigen presentation among cells, during formation process. At thesame time, exosome, as nano lipid vesicle secreted by cell, have theadvantages of high histocompatibility and low immunogenicity comparedwith other nano liposomes. Therefore, exosomes can be used as naturalbiological nanovector and show great potential for the use in drugdelivery.

Exosomes have been used as vectors of endogenous proteins, nucleic acidsand other biological molecules for disease diagnosis and treatment.However, there are limited studies on the surface functionalization ofexosomes. Previous studies focused on using recombinant plasmids to fusethe target protein with the membrane protein source cells on the surfaceof exosomes, and collect the exosomes secreted by the source cells toachieve surface modification of exosomes. However, due to the lowefficiency of plasmid transfection, unclear conformation of targetingpeptide fusion expression and low recovery efficiency of exosomes, theapplication of exosomes as natural biological nano vectors has beenhindered. Therefore, development of a new method of surfacefunctionalization of exosomes to improve the multi-loading efficiency ofexosomes as drug delivery vectors is of great significance for theclinical application of exosomes. Extracellular vesicles, secreted bycells, are mainly membrane vesicle structure formed by cell membraneshedding, with a diameter of 150-1000 nm, which can also carry proteinand RNA from source cells for material exchange and informationtransmission among cells. At the same time, the lipid membrane structuredetermines that it can be used as a vector of substance transport fordrug delivery like exosomes. Therefore, it is imperative to develop amethod that can modify the surface of exosome and macrovesicle toimprove the loading efficiency of drug delivery.

The prior art, a Chinese patent NO. CN201510520565.7 provides apolypeptide CP05 with specific binding ability to CD63 on exosomesurface, and binds the specific targeting peptide, functional peptideand nucleic acid drug to the surface of exosomes, so as to achievesurface modification of exosomes via CP05. The feasibility of CP05 as ananchor peptide is confirmed by functional tests in vitro and in vivoexperiments. However, the binding efficiency of CP05 to exosomes islimited, and the CP05 did not bind to or extremely inefficiently bind toexosome that did not express or express low level of CD63.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Based on above defects and deficiencies in the field, the inventiondevelops and obtains a new polypeptide which is named as EXP(Extracellular vesicle binding peptide). Compared to CP05, the bindingefficiency of EXP with exosomes is about 2 times higher than that ofCP05 under the same conditions; especially, the binding efficiency ofEXP to exosomes from serum is significantly higher than that of CP05,and the binding capacity with exosomes is stronger. EXP can be used forthe extraction of serum exosomes, and the extraction rate is about 2times higher than that of CP05. The present invention provides a moreefficient polypeptide for the surface functionalization and extractionof exosomes.

The technical solution of the present invention is as follows:

A polypeptide EXP, characterized in that, its amino acid sequence isshown as SEQ ID NO. 1.

A drug delivery system, characterized in that, comprises the polypeptideEXP according to claim 1 and drug delivery vector.

Said polypeptide EXP binds to drug delivery vectors via CD63 and/or CD81protein;

Preferably, the drug delivery vector is vector that can express or carryCD63 and/or CD81; the vector can express or carry CD63 and/or CD81 isselected from exosome, extracellular microvesicle, exosome,extracellular microvesicle expressing or attaching CD63 and/or CD81protein, liposome, nanoparticle.

The drug delivery systems also comprises pharmacodynamically activemolecule;

Said pharmacodynamically active molecule are selected from polypeptide,nucleic acid, and small molecular compound which can be covalentlyconjugated to EXP;

Preferably, the polypeptide that can be covalently conjugated to EXP isselected from muscle-targeting peptide M12, liver cancer-targetingpeptide P47, cranial nerve-targeting peptide RVG and other functionalpolypeptides, for example, N1ND;

Preferably, the small molecule compound is selected fromPhosphorodiamidate Morpholino Oligomer (PMO);

Preferably, the nucleic acid which can be covalently conjugated to EXPis selected from neutral and uncharged PMO or PNA.

The polypeptide that can be covalently linked with EXP can also be atargeting peptide targeting different tissues, or a functionalpolypeptide of any sequence. Since polypeptide synthesis is a verymature technology, EXP is also a kind of polypeptide, which can beartificially synthesized with any other polypeptide, and any polypeptidecan be synthesized with EXP, which is also the advantage of EXP. It'savailable to synthesize EXP with any sequence of peptide through maturepeptide synthesis technology.

A targeted drug delivery system, characterized in that, comprises thepolypeptide EXP, drug delivery vector and targeting peptide.

The polypeptide EXP binds to drug delivery vector via CD63 and/or CD81site;

Preferably, the drug delivery vector is vector that can express or carryCD63 and/or CD81; the vector that can express or carry CD63 and/or CD81is selected from exosome, extracellular microvesicle, exosome,extracellular microvesicle attaching CD63 and/or CD81 protein, liposome,nanoparticle.

The targeted drug delivery system also comprises pharmacodynamicallyactive molecule; said pharmacodynamically active molecule is selectedfrom polypeptide and nucleic acid which can be covalently conjugated toEXP;

Preferably, said polypeptide which can be covalently conjugated to EXPis selected from M12, P47, RVG or N1ND;

Preferably, said nucleic acid that can be covalently conjugated to EXPis selected from PMO.

An enhanced drug delivery vector, characterized in that, is a drugdelivery vector which it linked or modified by the polypeptide EXP.

Said polypeptide EXP binds to the drug delivery vector via CD63 and/orCD81 site;

Preferably, the drug delivery vector is vector that can express or carryCD63 and/or CD81; the vector that can express or carry CD63 and/or CD81is selected from exosome, extracellular microvesicle, plasmid that canexpress CD63 and/or CD81.

A transport enhanced drug, characterized in that, the effectivecomponent of the drug is loaded on the enhanced drug delivery vector.

For example, HMGN1, a specific polypeptide drug, its nucleotide sequenceand EXP nucleic acid sequence can be loaded into gene expression vector(e.g. lentiviral expression vector pCDH-CMVpuro-insulin-HMGN1 vector).The peptide sequence of HMGN1+EXP can be expressed by the geneexpression vector, and then the structure of HMGN1+EXP+drug deliveryvector can be formed by the combination of EXP and CD63 and/or CD81 ondrug delivery vector, that is, a transport enhanced drug of polypeptideis obtained.

For polypeptide shorter than 60 amino acids, no gene expression systemis needed; for polypeptide or protein larger than 60 amino acids, geneexpression vector is needed.

In other embodiments, nucleic acid drug PMO can be covalently conjugatedwith EXP to obtain a complex structure of PMO-EXP, subsequently PMO-EXPbinds to CD63 and/or CD81 on drug delivery vector via EXP to generate astructure of PMO-EXP-drug delivery vector, namely a transport enhanceddrug of nucleic acid.

A targeted drug, characterized in that, the drug composition of thetargeted drug is included in the targeted drug delivery system.

For example, PMO covalently conjugated to EXP can be used in thetreatment of DMD.

An extracellular vesicle extraction kit, characterized in that,comprises the polypeptide EXP.

The extracellular vesicle kit also comprises reagent for isolating andpurifying extracellular vesicle;

Preferably, said reagent for isolating and purifying extracellularvesicle includes:

More preferably, said polypeptide EXP is coated on nickel bead, ormagnetic bead, or covalently linked to microsphere or nanobead by maturechemical processing.

The extracellular vesicle is selected from exosome and/or microvesicle.

A disease diagnostic kit, characterized in that, the disease diagnosismarker is exosomes surface protein molecule, disease-related specificprotein molecule, for example liver cancer-specific antigen AFP; the kitincludes the polypeptide EXP.

For example, as to diagnosing tumor patient or muscle patient, like CP05of the prior art, the EXP can be attached to the magnetic bead tocombine with free exosome, and the disease can be diagnosed by detectingthe concentration of the bound exosomes.

The disease diagnostic kit also includes reagent for isolating andpurifying exosome;

Preferably, the reagent for purifying exosome includes: EXP-coatednickel bead, binding solution (50 mM imidazole, 500 mM sodium chloride,20 mM disodium hydrogen phosphate, pH 7.4), washing buffer (75 mMimidazole, 500 mM sodium chloride, 20 mM disodium hydrogen phosphate, pH7.4); eluent buffer (500 mM imidazole, 500 mM sodium chloride, 20 mMdisodium hydrogen phosphate, pH 7.4); all above reagents arecommercially available.

Preferably, the exosome is selected from exosome from human serum,and/or, exosome from human urine, and/or, free exosome from othersources, and/or, exosome in cell culture supernatant.

A method for isolating and purifying extracellular vesicle,characterized in that, comprises binding or capturing the extracellularvesicle with the polypeptide EXP.

The method for purifying microvesicle also includes:

Step 1: His labeled EXP and CP05 (100 μg) are combined with 40 μl nickelbead in 200 μl binding solution, and incubated for 1 h at 4° C.;

Step 2: 1 mL of pre-centrifuged serum (4400 g, centrifugated for 20 min;13000 g centrifugated for 5 min) is added to the nickel bead coated withHis-EXP and His-CP05, and incubated at 4° C. for 30 min;

Step 3: discarding the serum and washing off non-specific binding withthe washing buffer for 3 times with 10 min each time).

Step 4: eluting by 1001 elution buffer to recover the extracellularvesicles.

The extracellular vesicle is selected from exosome and/or microvesicle.

The present invention also provides a use of the polypeptide EXP inpharmacy.

The use includes that the polypeptide EXP is connected with the drugdelivery vector to obtain an enhanced drug delivery vector based on theEXP-vector complex.

Said use also includes: the drug molecule is connected with theEXP-vector complex to obtain a drug based on the drugmolecule-EXP-vector complex.

Said use also includes: the targeting peptide is further connected withthe drug molecule-EXP-vector complex to obtain targeted drug.

Use of the polypeptide EXP in preparation of disease diagnosis reagent.

Said use includes: the polypeptide EXP is connected with the exosomes.

Said exosome is derived from human serum, human urine, or other source.

The lipid bilayer structure of natural exosome can encapsulate drugmolecule, and some exosome has tissue tropism, thus realizing drugtargeted delivery, the EXP of the invention can effectively combine withexosome, and the binding efficiency of drug molecule and exosome can beimproved by connecting drug molecule with EXP. In the present invention,drug molecule is linked to the external surface of exosome through EXP,which can deliver drug molecule to target cell by passive targeting ofsome exosome. On the other hand, if exosome is further linked totargeted peptide, the passive targeting of exosome will be changed bytargeting peptide. At this time, targeted peptide plays a major role intargeting to deliver drug molecule to target cell.

The present invention provides a polypeptide EXP and related complexformed by the connection of the EXP. Wherein the amino acid sequence ofthe EXP is CRHKMWTVKSRL. Said polypeptide EXP can be linked totransmembrane protein on the surface of the vector by co-incubating withthe vector.

The transmembrane protein linked with the polypeptide EXP involvestransmembrane protein CD63 on surface of exosome and other transmembraneprotein including CD81. The polypeptide EXP can be used for the surfacefunctionalization of extracellular vesicle including targetedmodification, drug loading, and capture of extracellular vesicle, whichis used for clinical disease diagnosis.

The present invention obtained a polypeptide EXP which can bind toextracellular vesicle with a higher binding efficiency, and its sequenceis CRHKMWTVKSRL. The EXP can binds to the transmembrane protein CD63 andCD81 on the surface of extracellular vesicle. Compared to the previouspeptide CP05, EXP shows more efficient binding to exosomes. Saidpolypeptide EXP can be used for high-efficient capture of extracellularvesicle. and covalently combining with other functional molecule, suchas targeted peptide, nucleic acid drug, to connect functional moleculeson the surface of extracellular vesicle and realize thefunctionalization of extracellular vesicle. Said polypeptide EXP in thepresent invention overcomes the disadvantages in process of traditionalexosome modification like low transfection efficiency with plasmid andlow recovery efficiency of exosome encountered in the process of, andthus provides an efficient and convenient method for exosome surfacemodification. Meanwhile, the delivery complex obtained by saidmodification method is relatively stable and thus shows a expansiveprospect in clinical use.

It's proven by experiments in the present invention that saidpolypeptide EXP can be used to load drug on extracellular vesicle, andcan improve the loading efficiency of drug, whose main mechanism is thatEXP can bind to CD63 and/or CD81 on the surface of extracellularvesicle, and thus facilitate the EXP-conjugated drug loaded onextracellular vesicle. EXP can extract extracellular vesicle in serum,and can bind to extracellular vesicle from different source. In asummary, the development of said polypeptide EXP provides ahigh-efficient approach for extracellular vesicles capture and surfacefunctionalization, and the delivery complex composed of said polypeptideEXP shows a higher stability, which will accelerate the transformationof extracellular vesicle in clinical use.

DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 shows the binding efficiency of anchoring polypeptide withexosome. The present invention shows three polypeptides with differentsequences, EXP (CRHKMWTVKSRL), 39880 (CKHNQWTVTSRL) and 39881(SQCSVSTKL). The FAM-labeled peptides EXP, CP05, 39880, 39881 wererespectively co-incubated with exosome from differentiated muscle cellsC2C12 (dC2C12), and the binding efficiency of different polypeptideswith exosome was detected by flow cytometry.

Each sign in the figure represents the detection results of thefollowing sequences: EXO represents exosomes derived from murinemyotubes; CP05 represents the polypeptide which is recorded in the priorart Chinese patent No. CN201510520565.7; EXP represents the polypeptideof the present invention (SEQ ID NO. 1). 39880 and 399881 respectivelyrepresent two other variants of CP05. (A) Flow cytometry to detected thebinding efficiency of different peptides with exosomes. It's shown bythe results that EXP demonstrated the highest binding efficiency toexosomes, up to 95.5%, indicating the strongest binding capacity. (B)Flow cytometry to detected the capacity to enter cells of differentpeptides mediated by exosome. The equivalent amount FAM-labeledpolypeptides were incubated with exosome derived from dC2C12 and addedinto C2C12 cells, and the capacity of enter cells was detected 24 hourslater. It's shown by the results that 65.6% of EXO-EXP entered cellswhose capacity is highest. (C) Quantitative analysis of differentpeptides entering cells mediated by exosome. It's shown by the resultsthat the ratio of EXO-EXP positive C2C12 cells is highest, which istwice as mush as EXOCP05, which points out that the capacity of EXPenter cells mediated by EXO is higher than CP05 and other variants, andsuggests that EXP bears stronger binding ability to exosomes than CP05.(D) the binding efficiency of different amount gradients of CP05 and EXPto the equivalent amount of exosomes was detected by Flow cytometry to.Different amounts of EXP and CP05 (0.03 μg, 0.06 μg, 0.3 μg) wereco-incubated with exosomes (10 μg), and their binding efficiency wascompared by flow cytometry. It's shown by the results that underdifferent amount gradients, the binding efficiencies of EXP and exosomeare all higher than that of CP05, and EXP exhibited a higher bindingadvantage particularly at low concentration.

FIG. 1A shows a flow cytometry to detected the binding efficiency ofdifferent peptides with exosomes.

FIG. 1B shows a flow cytometry to detected the capacity to enter cellsof different peptides mediated by exosome.

FIG. 1C shows a quantitative analysis of different peptides enteringcells mediated by exosome.

FIG. 1D shows the binding efficiency of different amount gradients ofCP05 and EXP to the equivalent amount of exosomes was detected by Flowcytometryto.

FIG. 2 shows the results for detecting the binding stability of CP05 andEXP with exosomes. The intracellular co-localization of CP05 and EXPwith exosomes was examined with confocal microscopy at differenttimepoints. FAM-labeled CP05 and EXP were incubated with DiI-labeledexosomes and then added into C2C12 cells. The co-localization ofpeptides and exosomes were observed with confocal microscopy, and FRETwas used to examine the binding capacity of peptides to exosomes atdifferent timepoints (6 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours).

The meanings of the signs in the figure are as follows: DAPI meansstaining result for nuclei by DAPI, Peptide (488,520) refers to theexcitation and emission wavelength of FAM-labeled CP05 and EXP; EXO(Dil)(540,620) refers to the excitation and emission wavelength forDiI-labeled exosomes; Merge is the superposition of above three stainingresults; FRET means fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Opticalenergy resonance transfer is an energy transfer phenomenon between twofluorescent molecules that are very close to each other. When theemission spectrum of the donor fluorescent molecule overlaps with theabsorption spectrum of the acceptor fluorescent molecule, and thedistance between two molecules is within the range of 10 nm, anon-radioactive energy transfer occurs. In the figure, the FAM-Peptideis the donor fluorescent molecule and DiI-EXO is the acceptorfluorescent molecule. FRET (488, 620) represents the excitation ofFAM-Peptide and the absorption wavelength of DiI-EXO. EXOCP05 is thestaining result of exosomes combined with CP05 sequence which isrecorded in the prior art Chinese Patent No. CN201510520565.7, andEXOEXP refers to the staining result of the combination of EXP of thepresent invention and exosomes. It's shown by the results that there wasco-localization between EXP and CP05 with exosomes in cells at differenttimepoints. The co-localization of CP05 and EXO in the cells reached thepeak in 12 hours, and reduced after 24 hours. Most of CP05 degraded at48 hours, and the co-localization of CP05 and EXO was significantlyreduced. However, as to EXP, the co-localization of EXP and EXO wasstill detectable in cells at 48 hours, which suggests a stronger bindingstability of EXP with EXO than CP05.

FIG. 3 shows the detecting results on the capacity of the competitivebinding of CP05 and EXP to exosomes. AF750 (APC-Cy7)-labeled CP05 andFAM-labeled CP05 or EXP were co-incubated with exosomes at ratios of 1:1or 1:5 (mass ratio), and the binding efficiency was detected with flowcytometry. It's shown by the results that when EXP and CP05 wereincubated with exosomes at the same time, EXP could compete with CP05 tocombine with exosomes, thus reducing the binding efficiency of CP05 andexosomes. (A) Flow cytometry to detect the binding efficiency of EXP orCP05 to exosomes. EXO was used as negative control; EXOCP05 is thebinding efficiency of CP05 (FAM, af750) separately labeled by differentfluorescence labeling with exosomes. EXOEXP is the binding efficiency ofFAM labeled EXP andexosomes.1:1, 1:5, 1:10 means different mass ratiosof AF750 and FAM-EXP/FAM-CP05 are respectively as 1:1, 1:5, 1:10. It'sshown by the results of flow cytometryto that the binding efficiency ofCP05 alone with EXO was about 70%, while that of EXP and exosomes was91.5% (flow cytometry to chart: the first line). When CP05 and EXP wasco-incubated with exosome, it's discovered by detecting their bindingefficiency that (flow cytometry to chart: the middle row), And thebinding efficiency of EXOCP05 (AF750) reduced after mass of EXP wasincreased to 5-fold and 10-fold higher than that of CP05. However, it'sfound by comparing different fluorescence CP05 molecules (flow cytometryto chart: the third line) that, the binding efficiency of EXOCP05(AF750) remained unchanged with increasing the mass ratio of FAM-CP05.It is suggested that EXP can competitively bind the binding sites ofCP05 and exosomes, resulting in the decrease of binding efficiency. (B)shows quantitative analysis of the binding efficiency of polypeptides toexosomes. Different fluorescence-labeled CP05 (APC-Cy7, FAM) wereco-incubated with exosomes, their binding efficiency is detected withflow cytometry. CP05 (AF750) means the binding efficiency of whereinexosome with CP05 (AF750). CP05 (FAM) means the binding efficiency ofwherein exosome with CP05 (FAM); EXP (FAM) means the binding efficiencyof wherein exosome with EXP (FAM). It's indicated by the results (asshown in the first row of the table) that the binding efficiency of CP05(AF750) to exosomes remained the same (from 57% to 63.1%) when amountsof FAM-CP05 was increased after exosome and CP05 (AF750) wereco-incubated with CP05 (FAM). However, after exosome and CP05 (AF750)were co-incubated with EXP (FAM) (the second row of the table), thebinding efficiency of CP05 (AF750) was decreased (from 66.9% to 48.4%)as amounts of FAM-EXP was increased.

FIG. 3A shows a flow cytometry to detect the binding efficiency of EXPor CP05 to exosomes.

FIG. 3B shows a quantitative analysis of the binding efficiency ofpolypeptides to exosomes.

FIG. 4 shows target detection of EXP. (A) Silver staining and Westernblot were used to detect the interest proteins band obtained byco-immunoprecipitation. Flag-tagged CP05 or EXP was incubated withanti-flag coated beads, and followed by co-incubation with cell lysatesafter removing the free peptides which were unconjugated with beads. Thespecific enriched proteins in the cell protein lysate were fished byusing the polypeptide. Then the size distribution of the fishing stripwas detected by silver staining, and the expression of differentTetraspanin family proteins in the fishing strip was detected by Westernblot. It's shown by the results that there were distinct protein bandswith sizes of about 45 kD and 25 kD appeared in the EXP group incomparison to the control group. It's confirmed by the western blotresults that these the distinct protein bands are CD63 and CD81. (B)Immunoprecipitation was used to catch the target of EXP. The results arethe same as above.

FIG. 4A shows that silver staining and Western blot were used to detectthe interest proteins band obtained by co-immunoprecipitation.

FIG. 4B shows that immunoprecipitation was used to catch the target ofEXP.

FIG. 5 shows the results of detecting the binding ability of EXP toexosomes from different sources, and the binding efficiency of CP05 andEXP with exosomes from different sources detected by Flow cytometry.FAM-labeled CP05 or EXP was co-incubated with exosomes derived frommurine myotubes (EXOmyotube), cardiac sphere cells (CDC)(EXOCDC) andhuman serum (EXOserum), and the binding efficiency was detected withflow cytometry. It's shown by the results that the binding efficiency ofCP05 to exosomes from different sources is about 70%, and the bindingefficiency of the same amount of EXP with exosomes from correspondingsources was about 90%. When incubated with exosomes from differentsources, EXP showed higher binding efficiency.

FIG. 6 shows exosomes morphology identification and application abilitydetection of exosomes in EXP captured serum. (A) Nano sight was used todetect the particle size of exosomes in serum captured by CP05 and EXP.It's shown by the results that the particle size of exosomes captured byEXP was about 50 nm, whose homogeneity was higher than that of exosomesrecovered by ultra separation. (B) shows methods of CP05 and EXP captureand comparison of the number of exosomes in the equivalent ultraseparated serum; (C) The morphology and size of exosomes captured byCP05 and EXP were detected by transmission electron microscopy. It'sshown by the results that exosomes captured by EXP has typical bi-layerstructure, and the size of exosomes captured by EXP was smaller thanthat of exosomes recovered by ultrafiltration. (D) Western blot was usedto detect the marker protein capturing exosome. It's shown by theresults that EXP captured marker proteins CD63, CD81 and HSC70 expressedby exosome. (E) The binding efficiency of exosomes in serum with CP05and EXP was detected. It's shown by the results that: exosomes recoveredby EXP could combine with CP05 and EXP, and the binding efficiency ofEXP with recovered exosomes was 95.9%, much higher than that of CP05(76.8%). (F) detection of the binding efficiency of exosome in serumwith CP05 and EXP, it's shown by the results that the capture efficiencyof exosomes in serum by EXP was 93.5%, higher than 83.3% of CP05.

FIG. 6A shows that Nano sight was used to detect the particle size ofexosomes in serum captured by CP05 and EXP.

FIG. 6B shows methods of CP05 and EXP capture and comparison of thenumber of exosomes in the equivalent ultra separated serum.

FIG. 6C shows that the morphology and size of exosomes captured by CP05and EXP were detected by transmission electron microscopy.

FIG. 6D shows that Western blot was used to detect the marker proteincapturing exosome.

FIG. 6E shows the binding efficiency of exosomes in serum with CP05 andEXP.

FIG. 6F shows a detection of the binding efficiency of exosome in serumwith CP05 and EXP.

FIG. 7 shows functional evaluation of EXP-mediated exosomes as deliveryvector. Antisense oligonucleotide drugs PMO were covalently conjugatedto CP05 or EXP to form the peptide-PMO conjugates CP05PMO and EXPPMO.CP05PMO and EXPPMO were co-incubated with exosomes to form EXOCP05PMOand EXOEXPPMO composition, in order to mediate in restoring theexpression of dystrophin protein inmdx mousetibialis anterior (TA)muscles. Wherein, PMO means local injection of 2 g PMO into tibialisanterior muscles; CP05PMO means local injection of 2 μg CP05PMO into TAmuscles; EXPPMO means local injection of 2 μg EXPPMO into TA muscles;EXOCP05PMO means that 2 μg CP05PMO was co-incubated with 2 g exosomesand injected into TA muscles, EXOEXPPMO means that 2 μg EXPPMO wasco-incubated with 2 g exosomes and injected into TA muscles. (A)immunohistochemistry was used to detect distribution ofdystrophin-positive myofibersinmuscle fiber tissues. (B) Quantitativeanalysis on the number of dystrophin-positive myofibers after injectionof different compounds in mdx mouse TA tissue. It's shown by the resultsthat recovery of dystrophin myofibers of EXOEXPPMO group is higher thanthat of EXOCP05PMO group, which suggests that EXP can mediatehigh-efficient PMO delivery. (C) Western blot is used to detect andcompare the recovery level of dystrophin protein after treated withEXOEXPPMO or EXOCP05PMO, wherein C57 means TA tissue protein ofwild-type mouse, mdx means dystrophin deficient TA tissue proteinwithout treat. (D) Quantitative analysis on recovery level of dystrophinprotein treated with EXOEXPPMO or EXOCP05PMO. The results is consistentto immunohistochemistry and staining results, which showed higher levelsof dystrophin expression in EXOEXPPMO treating group than EXOCP05PMOgroup.

FIG. 7A shows a distribution of dystrophin-positive myofibers in musclefiber tissues.

FIG. 7B shows a quantitative analysis on the number ofdystrophin-positive myofibers after injection of different compounds inmdx mouse TA tissue.

FIG. 7C shows a recovery level of dystrophin protein after treated withEXOEXPPMO or EXOCP05PMO.

FIG. 7D shows a quantitative analysis on recovery level of dystrophinprotein treated with EXOEXPPMO or EXOCP05PMO.

FIG. 8 shows functional test of EXP mediated MV (microcapsules) as drugdelivery vectors. (A) Western blot is used to identify and compare theexpression of biomarker proteins of MV and exosomes. It's shown by theresults that Tetraspanin family proteins like CD81, CD9 and CD63 wereexpressed in MV, but mitochondrial marker protein Cytochrome C was notexpressed. (B) particle size distribution of MV from different sourceswere detected by Nanosight. MVmyot means microvesicles derived fromdifferentiated muscle cells; MVurine means microvesicles derived fromurine. (C) Examination of the binding efficiency of EXP and CP05 toMVmyo was detected by flow cytometer. It's shown by the results that thebinding efficiency of EXP to MVmyotis significantly higher than that ofCP05. (D) shows local test of PMO drug delivered by EXP mediated MV intibialis anterior muscles, and recovery of dystrophin positive musclefiber was detected by immunohistochemical staining. (E) Western blot wasused to detect the recovery of dystrophin protein expression afterMVEXPPMO treatment. (F) shows quantitative analysis of dystrophinprotein after treated with MVEXPPMO.

FIG. 8A shows a expression of biomarker proteins of MV and exosomes.

FIG. 8B shows a particle size distribution of MV from different sources.

FIG. 8C shows a binding efficiency of EXP and CP05 to MVmyo.

FIG. 8D shows a local test of PMO drug delivered by EXP mediated MV intibialis anterior muscles, and recovery of dystrophin positive musclefiber.

FIG. 8E shows a recovery of dystrophin protein expression after MVEXPPMOtreatment.

FIG. 8F shows a quantitative analysis of dystrophin protein aftertreated with MVEXPPMO.

FIG. 9 shows the targeted transport of exosomes delivered by EXPmediated brain target peptide RVG. TA—tibialis anterior muscle;Q—quadriceps; G—gastrocnemius; T—triceps; H—heart; S—spleen; K—kidney;Lu—lung; Li—liver; Br—brain; In—small intestine.

EMBODIMENTS

The present invention will be further illustrated with the followingfigures and specific examples, but the protection scope is not limitedby these examples. Unless otherwise specified, the experimentalprocedures in which the specific conditions are not indicated in thefollowing examples are generally carried out according to routineprocedures, or conditions which can be inferred by those skilled in theart within the knowledge range, or according to the conditionsrecommended by the manufacturer. The reagents and apparatus referred toin the following examples are typically commercially available products,or products that can be obtained by other publicly available means.

Description of the Main Apparatus Involved in the Following Examples:

Instrument name Company/country Flow cytometry BD FACS ArialII/USA Ultraclean bench Airtech/China high speed refrigerated centrifugeEppendorf/Germany Electric Heating constant Temperature TianjinZhonghuan Experimental Electric Incubator Furnace Company limited./ChinaHigh pressure steam sterilizer Sanyo company/Japan Positive fluorescencemicroscope Olympus BX51/Japan Inverted fluorescence microscope OlympusIX71/Japan Confocal fluorescence microscope Olympus Corporation/JapanAutomatic microplate reader Bio-Tek Synergy HT/USA −80° C. lowtemperature refrigerator Sanyo company/Japan −20° C. low temperaturerefrigerator Haier Company/China Ice maker Grant company/United StatesMicronuclei acid analyzer NanoDrop 2000c/United States Vertical Gel TankBio-Rad/United States

The 1^(st) group of examples: The polypeptide EXP of the invention.

This group of examples provides a polypeptide EXP, characterized inthat, its amino acid sequence is set forth in SEQ ID NO. 1.

The 2^(nd) group of examples: The drug delivery system of the invention.

This group of examples provides a drug delivery system, characterized inthat, comprises the polypeptide EXP according to any of the Is group ofexamples and drug delivery vector.

In some examples, the polypeptide EXP binds to drug delivery vector viaCD63 and/or CD81 site.

Preferably, the drug delivery vector is vector that can express andcarry CD63 and/or CD81;

Preferably, the drug delivery vector can express or carry CD63 and/orCD81 is selected from exosome, extracellular microvesicle, liposome,nanoparticle, and/or, exosome, extracellular microvesicle attaching CD63and/or CD81 protein.

In other examples, the drug delivery system also includes:pharmacodynamically active molecule; the pharmacodynamically activemolecule is selected from polypeptide, nucleic acid, and small moleculecompound that can covalently connect with EXP.

Preferably, the polypeptide that can covalently connect with EXP isselected from muscle-targeting peptide-M12, liver cancer-targetingpeptide-P47, cranial nerve-targeting peptide-RVG and other functionalpolypeptide, for example, N1ND.

Preferably, the small molecule compound that can covalently connect withEXP is selected from Phosphorodiamidate Morpholino Oligomer (PMO).

Preferably, the nucleic acid that can covalently connect with EXP isselected from neutral, uncharged PMO or PNA.

The polypeptide that can covalently connect with EXP can also be atargeting peptide targeting different tissues, or a functionalpolypeptide of any sequence. Since peptide synthesis is a very maturetechnology, EXP is also a kind of peptide, which can be artificiallysynthesized with any other peptide, and any polypeptide can besynthesized with EXP. This is also the advantage of EXP, which can besynthesized with any sequence of polypeptide through mature artificialpolypeptide synthesis technology.

The 3^(rd) group of examples: The targeted drug delivery system of theinvention.

The present group of examples provides a targeted drug delivery system,characterized in that, comprises the polypeptide EXP according to any ofthe 1^(st) group of examples, drug delivery vector and targetingpeptide.

In some embodiments, the polypeptide EXP binds to drug delivery vectorvia CD63 and/or CD81 site.

Preferably, the drug delivery vector is vector that can express or carryCD63 and/or CD81; the vector that can express or carry CD63 and/or CD81is selected from exosome, extracellular microvesicle, liposome andnanoparticle, exosome, extracellular microvesicle attaching CD63 and/orCD81 protein.

In further embodiments, said targeted drug delivery system alsoincludes: pharmadynamically active molecule; the pharmadynamicallyactive molecule is selected from polypeptide and nucleic acid moleculethat can covalently connect with EXP;

Preferably, the polypeptide that can covalently connect with EXP isselected from M12, P47, RVG or N1ND.

Preferably, the nucleic acid molecule that can covalently connect withEXP is selected from Phosphorodiamidate Morpholino Oligomer (PMO).

The 4^(th) group of examples: the enhanced drug delivery vector of theinvention.

This group of embodiments provides the enhanced drug delivery vector,characterized in that, is drug delivery vector that is linked ormodified by the polypeptide EXP according to any of the 1^(st) group ofexamples.

In some embodiments, the polypeptide EXP binds to the drug deliveryvector via CD63 and/or CD81 site.

Preferably, the drug delivery vector is vector that can express or carryCD63 and/or CD81; the vector that can express or carry CD63 and/or CD81is selected from exosome, extracellular microvesicle, plasmid that canexpress CD63 and/or CD81.

The 5^(th) group examples: a transport enhanced drug of the invention.

This group of embodiments provides a transport enhanced drug,characterized in that, the effective component of the drug is loaded onthe enhanced drug delivery vector according to any of the 4^(th) groupof examples.

For example, the nucleotide sequence of a specific polypeptide drugHMGN1 and the nucleotide sequence of EXP can be loaded into the geneexpression vector (e.g., lentiviral vector: pCDH-CMVpuro-insulin-HMGN1).The polypeptide of HMGN1 and EXP can be expressed through said geneexpression vector and binded to CD63/CD81 on drug delivery vector viaEXP to form the structure of polypeptide+EXP+drug, i.e., Thus thepolypeptide transport enhanced drug can be obtained.

For short peptide less than 60 amino acids, no gene expression system isneeded; for peptides or proteins larger than 60 amino acids, geneexpression vectors are needed.

In other embodiments, nucleic acid drug PMO can be covalently conjugatedwith EXP to obtain a complex structure PMO-EXP of nucleic acid drug,subsequently PMO-EXP can bind to CD63 and/or CD81 on drug deliveryvector via EXP to generate a structure of PMO-EXP-drug delivery vector,namely, nucleic acid transport enhanced drug is obtained.

The 6^(th) group of examples: a targeted drug of the invention.

This group of embodiments provides a targeted drug, characterized inthat, the drug composition of the targeted drug is included in thetargeted drug delivery system according to any of the 3^(rd) group ofexamples.

For example, PMO covalently conjugated to EXP can be used for treatingDMD.

The 7^(th) group of examples: An extracellular vesicle recovery kit ofthe invention.

This group of embodiments provides a extracellular vesicle recovery kitscharacterized in that, comprises the polypeptide EXP according to any ofthe 1 group of examples.

In further embodiments, said extracellular vesicle recovery kit alsoincludes conventional reagent for recovering and purifying extracellularvesicle.

Preferably, said conventional reagent for recovering and purifyingextracellular vesicle includes:

More preferably, the polypeptide EXP is coated on nickel bead, ormagnetic bead, or covalently linked to microsphere or nanobead by maturechemical processing.

In some embodiments, the extracellular vesicle is selected from exosomeand/or microvesicle.

The 8^(th) group of examples: A disease diagnosis kit of the invention

This group of embodiments provides a disease diagnosis kit,characterized in that, the disease diagnosis markers are exosome surfaceprotein molecule and disease-related specific protein molecule, such asliver cancer specific antigen AFP; the kit includes the polypeptide EXPaccording to any of the 1^(st) group of examples.

For example, for the diagnosis of tumor or muscle dystrophic patients,just like CP05 in the prior art, EXP can be adhered to the magnetic beadto capture free exosome, and whether suffering from the disease can bediagnosed by detect concentration of exosome.

In further embodiments, said diagnostic kit also comprises reagent forrecovering and purifying exosome.

Preferably, the reagent for purifying exosome includes: nickel beadcoated with polypeptide EXP; binding buffer of pH7.4 with a formula of50 mM imidazole, 500 mM sodium chloride, 20 mM disodium hydrogenphosphate; washing solution of pH7.4 with a formula of 75 mM imidazole,500 mM sodium chloride, 20 mM disodium hydrogen phosphate; eluent ofpH7.4 with the formula of 500 mM imidazole, 500 mM sodium chloride, 20mM disodium hydrogen phosphate; all above reagents are commerciallyavailable.

Preferably, the exosome is selected from exosome from human serum,and/or exosome from human urine, and/or free exosome from other source,and/or exosome from cell culture supernatant.

The 9^(th) group of examples: a method for purifying extracellularvesicle of the invention.

This group of embodiments provides a method for purifying extracellularvesicle, characterized in that, comprises binding or capturing theextracellular vesicle with the polypeptide EXP according to any of the1^(st) group of examples.

In further embodiments, the method for purifying microvesicles alsoincludes:

Step 1: His labeled EXP and CP05 (100 μg) were combined with 40 μLnickel beads in 200 μL binding solution at 4° C. for 1 h under rotation.

Step 2: 1 mL of pre-centrifuged serum (4400 g, centrifugation for 20min; 13000 g, centrifugation for 5 min) was added to the nickel beadscoated with His-EXP and His-CP05, and was incubated at 4° C. for 30 minunder rotation.

Step 3: discarding the serum and washing off non-specific binding withthe washing buffer for 3 times (10 min each time).

Step 4: adding 100 μL of the elution buffer to recover the extracellularvesicle.

In some embodiments, the extracellular vesicle is selected from exosomeand/or microvesicle.

The 10^(th) group of examples: Use of the polypeptide EXP in pharmacy.

This group of embodiments provides use of said polypeptide EXP accordingto any of the 1^(st) group of examples in pharmacy.

In specific embodiments, the use includes that said polypeptide EXP isconnected with the drug delivery vector to obtain the enhanced drugdelivery vector based on the polypeptide EXP-vector complex.

In further embodiments, said use also includes: the drug molecule isconnected with the EXP-vector complex to obtain the drug based on thedrugs molecule-EXP-vector complex.

In some further embodiments, said use also includes: targeting peptideis further connected with the drug molecule-EXP-vector complex to obtaintargeted drug.

The 11^(th) group of examples: use of the polypeptide EXP inmanufacturing disease diagnostic reagent in the present invention

This group of embodiments provides use of the polypeptide EXP of any ofthe 1^(st) group of examples in manufacturing disease diagnosticreagent.

In specific embodiments, the application includes: the polypeptide EXPis connected with the exosome.

In some embodiments, said exosome is derived from human serum, humanurine, or other source.

Experimental Example 1: Flow Cytometry Assay was Used to Detect theBinding Capacity of EXP and Other Peptides to Exosome

1.1 Flow Cytometry is Used to Detect the Binding Capacity of EXP andOther Peptides to Exosome.

(1) FAM-labeled CP05 and other peptides respectively with amount of 0.06g were mixed with exosome from different source like dC2C12, CDC andserum respectively with amount of 10 μg, and DPBS is used to make up adeficiency to 200 μl in volume with.

(2) The mixture prepared as described in (1) was incubated at 4° C. for2-4 hrs under rotation in vertical shaker.

(3) the binding efficiency was detected with flow cytometry.

The results were shown in FIG. 1(A).

1.2 Detection on the Capacity Entering Cells of Exosome-Mediated CP05and Other Peptides.

(1) C2C12 cells were digested, counted and seeded into 24-well plates(4×10⁴/well) and grown at 5% CO₂ at 37° C. for 12 hrs.

(2) FAM-labeled CP05 and other peptides were incubated for 4 hrs asdescribed in 1.1.

(3) the incubated EXO_(EXP) and EXO_(CP05) were respectively added intoC2C12 cells and incubated in serum-free DMEM medium for another 24 hrsby changing medium.

(4) Dead cells and fluorescent molecule non-specifically bound to thesurface of cells were washed off with DPBS 24 hrs later.

(5) Cells were digested with 0.25% trypsin.

(6) centrifugation was performed at 1000 rpm for 5 min and thesupernatant was discarded.

(7) Cell precipitates were re-suspended with 500 μlDPBS.

(8) centrifugation was performed at 1000 rpm for 5 min and the cellprecipitates were washed twice.

(9) Cell precipitates were resuspended with 200 μl DPBS.

(10) the percentage of FITC-positive cells after adding EXO_(CP05) andEXO_(EXP) was analyzed by Flow cytometry.

The results were shown in FIGS. 1(B) and (C).

Experimental Example 2: Detection of the Binding Stability of EXP andCP05 to Exosome

(1) C2C12 cells were digested, counted and seeded into 24-well plates(4×10⁴/well) and grown at 37° C. under 5% CO₂ for 12 hrs.

(2) FAM-labeled EXP and CP05 (20 μg) were respectively incubated withDiI-labeled exosomes (10 μg) at 4° C. for 4 hrs under rotation.

(3) The incubated EXO_(EXP) and EXO_(CP05) respectively were added intoC2C12 cells and after changing medium, cells were cultured in serum-freeDMEM medium at 37° C.

(4) after being cultured for different time (6 hrs, 12 hrs, 24 hrs, 48hrs), cells were washed by DPBS.

(5) Cells were fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde at room temperature for 30min, and were mounted.

(6) The co-localization efficiency of exosome (Dil) and polypeptide(FAM) and fluorescence energy transfer at different time-points wereobserved with confocal microscopy.

The results were shown in FIG. 2.

Experimental Example 3: Evaluation of Competitive Binding Capacity ofExosome Between EXP and CP05

(1) AF750-labeled CP05 (0.06 μg) was respectively incubated withFAM-labeled CP05 (0.06 μg, 0.3 μg) or FAM-labeled EXP (0.06 μg, 0.3 μg)and exosome (10 μg), and DPBS was used to make up a deficiency to 200μl.

(2) Incubated for 4 hrs at 4° C. under rotation.

(3) Flow cytometry was used to examine the percentage of FITC- andAPC-positive exosomes.

The results were shown in FIG. 3.

Experimental Example 4: Validation of EXP Target Detection

(1) 100 μg EXP or 100 μg CP05 were respectively mixed with 30 μlactivated magnetic beads and incubated overnight at 4° C.

(2) The magnetic beads were recovered after washing off polypeptidesthat were unbound to magnetic beads with PBST.

(3) C2C12 cells were lysed with non-denatured tissue lysis buffer for 30min on ice and centrifuged at 12000 rpm to recover supernatant.

(4) The supernatant of C2C12 lysis was added to the recovered magneticbeads and incubated for 2 hrs at 4° C.

(5) The supernatant was discarded and the precipitates were washed withPBST under rotation for 3 times (5 min each time) to wash off thenonspecific binding protein, and then PBST was discarded.

(6) 1× loading buffer (100 μl) was added into the precipitates and 50 μlsample was loaded into SDS-PAGE gels.

(7) The gels were stained with silver dyes or transferred to membraneand hybridized with CD63, CD9, CD81, CD82 antibodies.

The results were shown in FIG. 4.

Experimental Example 5: Comparison on Binding Efficiency of EXP andExosomes from Different Sources

(1) 0.06 μg FAM-labeled CP05 and 0.06 μg of different peptides wererespectively mixed with 10 μg exosome from dC2C12, CDC, serum, and DPBSwas used to make up a deficiency to 200 μl.

(2) The mixture was incubated for 2-4 hrs at 4° C. under rotation invertical shaker.

(3) The binding efficiency was detected with flow cytometry.

The results were shown in FIG. 5.

Experimental Example 6: Characterization and Functional Validation ofExosome Captured from Serum by EXP

(1) His-tagged EXP and CP05 (100 μg) were respectively mixed with 4 μlnickel beads in 200 μl binding solution at 4° C. for 1 h under rotation.

(2) 1 ml pre-centrifuged serum was added to His-EXP and His-CP05 coatednickel beads (centrifuged at 4400 g for 20 min, followed by 13000 g for5 min), and then incubated at 4° C. for 30 min;

(3) The serum was discarded and the nonspecific binding was washed withthe washing solution for 3 times, 10 min each time.

(4) 100 μl eluent was used to recover extracellular vesicles.

6.1 Measurement of the Size of Captured Exosomes.

(1) 20 μl of exosomes recovered from elution were diluted into 1 ml ofPBS.

(2) Nanosight was used to detect the size distribution of capturedexosomes.

The results were shown in FIGS. 6(A) and (B).

6.2 Morphological Identification of Captured Exosomes.

(1) 10 μl of recovered exosomes by elution and 10 μl of recoveredexosomes by ultra-centrifugation were added with the same volume of 4%PFA for fixing.

(2) 10 μl exosomes fixing solution were absorbed onto the copper meshfor 20 min at room temperature.

(3) 100 μl PBS was dropped on the sealing membrane, with the copper meshfacing down, and unfixed exosomes on the copper mesh were washed off.

(4) For fixation, the copper mesh was transferred to 1% glutaraldehydefor 5 min.

(5) 100 μl H₂O was dropped on the sealing membrane with the copper meshfacing down, and the copper mesh was washed for 8 times, 2 min eachtime.

(6) Transfer the copper mesh to 50 μl uranium oxalate solution (pH=7)and stain for 5 mm.

(7) the copper mesh was transferred to 50 μl methylcellulose-uraniumoxalate on ice for 10 min.

(8) the copper mesh was taken out of methylcellulose-uranium oxalate anddried in air after drawing redundant liquid.

(9) the morphology of exosomes was observed with transmission electronmicroscopy.

The results were shown in FIG. 6C.

6.3 Detection on Protein Expression of Captured Exosomes.

(1) 5 × loading buffer was added to 30 μl exosomes recovered by elutionand 10 μg exosomes recovered by ultracentrifugation, and denatured at100° C.

(2) The samples were loaded onto 10% SDS-PAGE and run for 1.5 hrs.

(3) protein transfer onto membrane at 250 mA for 2.5 hrs.

(4) the membrane was blocked for 2 hrs at 4° C.

(5) the primary antibodies (CD63, CD81, CD9, HSC90, Alix) were added andincubated overnight.

(6) the membrane was washed for 3 times with PBST, 10 min each time.

(7) the secondary antibody was incubated with the membrane for 2 hrs at4° C.

(8) the membrane was washed with PBST for 3 times, 15 min each time.

(9) the membrane was developed.

The results were shown in FIG. 6(D).

Experimental Example 7: Exp Mediated the Functional Test of ExosomesTransporting PMO

7.1 Immunohistochemical Staining of Muscle Tissues.

(1) anterior muscles (TA) of treated mdx mice was cut into 8-μm thicksections by freezing microtome;

(2) the sections was soaked in PBS for 15 min, blocking buffercontaining 20% fetal bovine serum (FBS) and 20% goat serum (NGS) wasadded for blocking for 1 hour;

(3) the blocking buffer was discarded and dystrophin primary antibody(1:3000) was added for incubating for 2 hrs;

(4) the sections were washed with PBS for 3 times, and thefluorophore-labeled secondary antibody was added and incubated for 1 hr;

(5) the sections were washed with PBS for 3 times, mounted, dried in airand observed through the fluorescence microscope.

The results were shown in FIG. 7(A).

7.2 Western Blot Staining

(1) 5× loading buffer was added to 50 μg different muscle samples andboiled at 72° C. for 5 min.

(2) the samples were loaded onto 4-6% SDS-PAGE gel and run for 2.5 hrs.

(3) proteins onto the membrane was transferred at 110 mA for 18 hrs.

(4) the membrane was blocked for 2 hrs at 4° C.

(5) the primary antibodies (dystrophin and α-actinin) was incubated withthe membrane overnight.

(6) the membrane was washed with PBST for 3 times, 10 min each time.

(7) the membrane was incubated with secondary antibodies for 2 hrs at 4°C.

(8) the membrane was washed with PBST for 3 times, 15 min each time.

(9) the membrane was developed.

The results were shown in FIG. 7(C).

Example 8: Functional Evaluation on MV Mediated by EXP as Drug DeliveryVector

8.1 The Procedures for MV Recovery.

(1) the cell supernatant or urine was balanced and centrifuged at 4500 gfor 20 min at 4° C.

(2) the supernatant was collected with precipitate discarded andcentrifuged at 13000 g for 5 min at 4° C.

(3) the supernatant was collected with precipitate discarded andcentrifuged at 20000 g for 90 min at 4° C.

(4) the supernatant was discarded and the precipitate was resuspendedwith 1 ml PBS, and centrifuged at 20000 g for 90 min at 4° C.

(5) the supernatant was discarded and the precipitate was resuspendedwith 100 μl of PBS.

(6) Western Blot was used to detect the expression of biomarker protein,and nanosight was used to detect the size distribution of particles,their procedures were as above.

The results were shown in FIG. 8(A), 8(B).

1. A polypeptide EXP, characterized in that, its amino acid sequence isshown as SEQ ID NO.
 1. 2. A drug delivery system, characterized in that,comprises the polypeptide EXP according to claim 1 and drug deliveryvector.
 3. The drug delivery systems according to claim 2, characterizedin that, the EXP binds to the drug delivery vector via CD63 and/or CD81protein; preferably, the drug delivery vector is the vector expressingor carrying CD63 and/or CD81; the vector expressing or carrying CD63and/or CD81 is selected from exosome, extracellular microvesicle;exosome—, extracellular microvesicle-expressing or attaching CD63 and/orCD81 protein, liposome, nanoparticle.
 4. The drug delivery systemaccording to claim 2, further comprising a pharmacodynamically activemolecule; Said pharmacodynamically active molecule are selected frompolypeptide, nucleic acid, and small molecular compound which can becovalently conjugated to EXP; preferably, the polypeptide that can becovalently conjugated to EXP is selected from muscle-targeting peptideM12, liver cancer-targeting peptide P47, brain-targeting peptide RVG andother functional polypeptides, for example, N1ND; preferably, the smallmolecular compound which can be covalently conjugated to EXP is selectedfrom Phosphorodiamidate Morpholino Oligomer (PMO); preferably, thenucleic acid which can be covalently conjugated to EXP is selected fromneutral, uncharged PMO or PNA.
 5. A targeted drug delivery system,characterized in that, comprises the polypeptide EXP according to claim1, drug delivery vector and targeting peptide.
 6. The targeted drugdelivery system according to claim 5, characterized in that, thepolypeptide EXP binds to drug delivery vector via CD63 and/or CD81 site;preferably, the drug delivery vector is the vector that can express orcarry CD63 and/or CD81; the vector that can express or carry CD63 and/orCD81 is selected from exosome, extracellular microvesicle; exosome—,extracellular microvesicle-attaching CD63 and/or CD81 protein, liposome,nanoparticle.
 7. The targeted drug delivery system according to claim 5,further comprising a pharmacodynamically active molecule; saidpharmacodynamically active molecule is selected from polypeptide andnucleic acid which can be covalently conjugated to EXP; preferably, saidpolypeptide which can be covalently conjugated to EXP is selected fromM12, P47, RVG or N1ND; preferably, said nucleic acid that can becovalently conjugated to EXP is selected from PMO.
 8. An enhanced drugdelivery vector, characterized in that, is a drug delivery vector whichis linked or modified by the polypeptide EXP according to claim
 1. 9.The enhanced drug delivery vector according to claim 8, characterized inthat, the polypeptide EXP binds to drug delivery vector via CD63 and/orCD81 protein; preferably, the drug delivery vector is a vector that canexpress or carry CD63 and/or CD81; the vector that can express or carryCD63 and/or CD81 is selected from exosome, extracellular microvesicle,and plasmid that can express CD63 and/or CD81.
 10. A drug with enhanceddelivery, characterized in that, the effective component of the drug isloaded on the enhanced drug delivery vector of claim
 8. 11. A targeteddrug, characterized in that, the drug composition of the targeted drugis included in any of the targeted drug delivery system of claim
 6. 12.An extracellular vesicle extraction kit, characterized in that,comprises the polypeptide EXP according to claim
 1. 13. Theextracellular vesicle extraction kit according to claim 12,characterized in that, also comprises reagent for extracting andpurifying extracellular vesicle; Preferably, the polypeptide EXP iscoated on nickel bead, or magnetic bead, or covalently linked tomicrosphere or nanobead by mature chemical processing.
 14. Theextracellular vesicle extraction kit according to claim 12, wherein theextracellular vesicle is selected from exosome and/or microvesicle. 15.A disease diagnosis kit, characterized in that, the disease diagnosismarker is exosome surface protein molecule and disease-related specificprotein molecule, for example, liver cancer specific antigen AFP; thekit includes the polypeptide EXP according to claim
 1. 16. The diseasediagnosis kit according to claim 15, characterized in that, alsoincludes reagent for extracting and purifying exosome; preferably, thereagent for purifying exosome includes: nickel bead coated with thepolypeptide EXP; binding buffer of pH7.4 with a formula of 50 mMimidazole, 500 mM sodium chloride, 20 mM disodium hydrogen phosphate;washing solution of pH7.4 with a formula of 75 mM imidazole, 500 mMsodium chloride, 20 mM disodium hydrogen phosphate; eluent of pH7.4 withthe formula of 500 mM imidazole, 500 mM sodium chloride, 20 mM disodiumhydrogen phosphate; preferably, the exosome is selected from exosomederived from human serum, and/or exosome derived from human urine,and/or free exosome derived from other source, and/or exosome from cellculture supernatant.
 17. A method for purifying extracellular vesicle,characterized in that, comprises binding or capturing the extracellularvesicle with the polypeptide EXP according to claim
 1. 18. The methodfor purifying microvesicle according to claim 17, comprises: Step 1, Hislabeled EXP and CP05 (100 μg) is respectively combined with 40 μL nickelbead in 200 μL binding buffer, and incubated for 1 h at 4° C.; Step 2,nickel bead which has been coated with His-EXP and His-CP05 is added to1 mL pre-centrifuged serum (4400 g, centrifugate for 20 min, 13000 g,centrifugate for 5 min) and incubated at 4° C. for 30 min; Step 3,discard the serum and wash off a nonspecific binding with the washingsolution, 10 min/times, 3 times; Step 4, 100 μL eluent is used toextract the extracellular vesicle.
 19. The method for purifyingextracellular vesicle according to claim 17, wherein the extracellularvesicle is selected from exosome and/or microvesicle.
 20. Use of thepolypeptide EXP according to claim 1 in the pharmacy.
 21. The useaccording to claim 20, characterized in that, comprises the polypeptideEXP is connected with the drug delivery vector to obtain an enhanceddrug delivery vector based on the peptide EXP-vector complex.
 22. Theuse according to claim 21, characterized in that, also comprises thedrug molecule is connected with the polypeptide EXP-vector complex toobtain a drug based on the drug molecule-polypeptide EXP-vector complex.23. The use according to claim 22, characterized in that, also comprisesthe targeting peptide is further connected with the drugmolecule-polypeptide EXP-vector complex to obtain a targeted drug. 24.The use of the polypeptide EXP according to claim 1 in a preparation ofdisease diagnosis reagent.
 25. The use according to claim 24,characterized in that, comprises the polypeptide EXP is connected withexosome.
 26. The use of claim 25, characterized in that, the exosome isselected from exosomes derived from human serum, human urine or othersource.